If you remember one point from my health section story on blood transfusions, let it be this: donating blood is always, always a good thing. That’s true even though blood use is falling in the United …

Caitlin Ryan has spent her career researching and trying to improve the understanding of physical and mental health issues for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. She saw the need early …

The American Psychiatric Association is holding its annual meeting in San Francisco this week, and coinciding with that is the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …

Since the 1930s, gonorrhea has developed resistance to a number of antimicrobials. But while there has always been another type of drug that could fight the disease, public health experts now say the …

Ladies, before you do your morning makeup, you may want to think twice about what you’re putting on your lips. A new UC Berkeley study analyzed a bunch of lipsticks and lip glosses and found different …